re: In game thread for Benghazi hearings(Posted by Vegas Bengal on 5/8/13 at 8:59 am to dante)

Will Obama and Biden be not testifying together, behind closed doors and with no transcript because if not, it ain't legit?

quote:Bush and Cheney did not testify before the panel -- they were not under oath and there was to be no recording made of the session nor a stenographer in the room. The two members of the White House counsel's staff were expected to take notes during the session, and the commission members were also allowed to take handwritten notes. Bush brushed off a question from a reporter Thursday on whether 9/11 families were entitled to a transcript of the session. "You asked me that question yesterday," Bush replied. "I got the same answer." He did not repeat the answer, but the White House has said there will not be a transcript of the session. Bush said he expects details of his "conversation" with the commission to go into its final report.

Actually it's the old hypocrisy argument. The right held Bush and Reagan to different standards.

I mean hundreds of Marines are killed in Beirut under Reagan and look what happened:

quote:The Reagan administration immediately attempted to deflect blame for the attack with a deluge of false statements and misrepresentations. In a televised speech four days after the bombing, the president insisted the attack was unstoppable, erroneously declaring that the truck crashed through a series of barriers, including a chain-link fence and barbed-wire entanglements, and argued that the U.S. mission was succeeding.